Which 1551 Erasmus Reinhold tables helped spread Copernican calculation methods?
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Prutenic Tables
96379 Intermediate Trivia Questions
96379 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which 1627 tables by Kepler improved planetary predictions using Tycho's data?
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Rudolphine Tables
Which 1596 Kepler book was an early published defense of Copernican astronomy?
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Mysterium Cosmographicum
Which cardinal urged Copernicus in 1536 to publish his heliocentric theory?
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Nikolaus von Schönberg
At which Italian university did Copernicus study medicine after Bologna?
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University of Padua
Which university awarded Copernicus a doctorate in canon law in 1503?
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University of Ferrara
Which Newton work gave a mathematical basis for Kepler's laws and heliocentric dynamics?
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Principia Mathematica
Which 1619 Kepler book presented his third law of planetary motion?
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Harmonices Mundi
Which geoheliocentric model had the Sun orbit Earth while other planets orbited the Sun?
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Tychonic system
Which 1615 Galileo letter defended Copernicanism while discussing biblical interpretation?
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Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Which 1610 book announced Galileo's telescopic discoveries that challenged geocentrism?
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Sidereus Nuncius
Which pope was De revolutionibus dedicated to in 1543?
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Pope Paul III
Who wrote the unsigned preface to De revolutionibus that framed the model as a calculation tool?
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Andreas Osiander
What type of onboard recorder stores high-rate Voyager plasma wave data?
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digital tape recorder
What stabilization method is used by the identical Voyager spacecraft?
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three-axis stabilization
On what date did Voyager 2 enter the interstellar medium?
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November 5, 2018
About how far from Earth was Voyager 1 when it took the Pale Blue Dot image?
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6 billion kilometers
Who advocated taking Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot photograph?
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Carl Sagan
Which launch vehicle sent Voyager 1 into space?
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Titan IIIE
Which major storm did Voyager 2 discover on Neptune?
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Great Dark Spot
What boundary did the Voyager Interstellar Mission aim to reach?
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Heliopause
What shape is the main equipment bus of each Voyager spacecraft?
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Decagonal prism
Which Italian scientist is credited with discovering methane in 1776?
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Alessandro Volta
Which scientific law relates blackbody radiation wavelength to temperature?
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Wien's displacement law
Which scientist is the namesake of the Keeling Curve?
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Charles David Keeling
What unit is commonly used for atmospheric CO2 concentration in the Keeling Curve?
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Parts per million
What term describes heat-trapping gases such as methane, CO2, and water vapor?
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Greenhouse gas
Which Swedish scientist calculated that doubling CO2 could raise Earth’s temperature?
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Svante Arrhenius
Which potent greenhouse gas is used to insulate some electrical switchgear?
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sulfur hexafluoride
What atmospheric process widens gas absorption lines under higher pressure?
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pressure broadening
Earth's surface emits most of its thermal energy as what kind of radiation?
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longwave radiation
Which French physicist strengthened Fourier's greenhouse-effect argument in 1827 and 1838?
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Claude Pouillet
Which American scientist showed in 1856 that carbon dioxide warmed more in sunlight?
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Eunice Newton Foote
Which positive feedback occurs when warming increases atmospheric water vapor?
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water vapor feedback
What metric compares a greenhouse gas's warming effect with carbon dioxide?
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global warming potential
Which Space Shuttle mission launched Canadarm2 to the ISS?
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STS-100
What is Canadarm2's official name?
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Space Station Remote Manipulator System
Which module did the Bishop Airlock attach to on the ISS?
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Tranquility